Rename Assembly Hall? It's a peculiar development

7:03 PM,
Dec. 27, 2013

Students cheer during an IU game in December at Assembly Hall.

Written by

Cam Savage

In the summer of 1997, I was an unpaid intern in the office of then-Sen. Richard Lugar. It was a fairly uneventful job. Sorting mail, answering phones, standard summer intern stuff.

Occasionally we'd get phone calls from the residents of Lugar Towers, the public housing high-rise in Downtown Indianapolis that had been named after Lugar, a former mayor of Indianapolis.

A few summers before, the residents started calling the office en masse, upset that the television in the common area was on the fritz. They naturally assumed that the man whose name was on the building was the man who could fix ...